About the Authors

Xiaoting Huang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (MGB), Ministry of Education, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Ke Bi

Affiliation Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Liping Hu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (MGB), Ministry of Education, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Yan Sun

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (MGB), Ministry of Education, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Wei Lu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (MGB), Ministry of Education, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Zhenmin Bao

zmbao@ouc.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (MGB), Ministry of Education, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH KB ZB. Performed the experiments: XH KB LH WL. Analyzed the data: XH KB YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XH KB. Wrote the paper: XH KB ZB.